UNOFFICIAL BIOSTAR TPower I45 M/B

[mattkosem]

the memory is a bear to set once you go beyond reasonable levels for a dual core and a Quad core, like mine with dual L2's!

i went from 470 fsb to 475 and it required a change in PL level and DDR2 Comp Reconfig...it appears that a 20 fsb jump is going to require to adjust the cpu skew control, mch skew and possibly the cpu pll...i was able to use 1.8v for cpu pll...never could do that before.

also, it appears that cpu skew and mch skew might require a 200ps difference...right now i am using 200ps for the cpu skew and 400 for mch skew.

i am trying to find the balance of memory settings and those skew controls.

it would have been nice for biostar's engineers to list all these changes in the bios in a row (on one page) like gigabyte does for the X48 boards.

I've found that, with the FSB set to 490 on my board, I'm more stable with the clock skew and driving control values on auto than with any of the suggestions that I've seen here.

This board seems to be a massive OCer, I'm very impressed so far. It's got a huge VDroop, but I've always been a fan of that anyways. I'm of the camp that keeps the power options enabled anyways, so it stays at lower voltage for 16 out of 24 hours of the day.

Does removing the heatsinks to replace the paste void the warranty on these biostar mobos? I've got a ton of Arctic Alumina sitting here from the swiftech stuff that I bought, and I wouldn't mind applying it if it'll keep my warranty fresh.

--Matt